Enabling Numerical and Software Technologies for Studying the Electrical Activity in Human Heart

Authors:
Xing Cai;Glenn Terje Lines
Affiliations:
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Venue:
PARA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Parallel Computing Advanced Scientific Computing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We study the electrical field in the human body, generated by the ventricular muscle, by means of numerical simulations. The involved mathematical model consists of two partial differential equations (PDEs) that are also coupled with a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Following the strategy of operator-splitting, we have devised an efficient numerical algorithm that carries out a simulation stepwise in time. At every time level, the ODE system is solved before a parabolic PDE, and then an elliptic PDE. The main focus of this paper is on the transformation of an existing sequential simulator into a parallel simulator that runs on multiprocessor platforms. Two important numerical ingredients used in the resulting parallel simulator are overlapping domain decomposition and multigrid, which together ensure good numerical efficiency. We also explain howob ject-oriented programming techniques enable the software parallelization in a simple and structured manner. In addition, we study the performance of the parallel simulator on different multiprocessor platforms.